We are pleased to announce that Server Backup Manager 5.8 will be released on Tuesday, August 26th! Please make a note of this date, especially if you have configured your servers to automatically update via apt or yum.
The new release provides some key new enhancements:
- Amazon Glacier support for offsite storage of Disk Safe replicas.
- UEFI/GPT support. Backup and BMR UEFI/GPT partitions.
- XFS bare metal recovery support.
- Server Backup Manager API enhancements
- Experimental feature BMR API the method doBareMetalRestore is now available to perform an automated full system restore
- getServerLicenseInformation() now also returns the Server Backup Manager version.
- *Get Policy by disk safe. Two new methods were added:
- getPolicyByDiskSafe Returns the policy associated with the specified Disk Safe.
- getPolicyByDiskSafeId Returns the policy associated with the specified Disk Safe ID.
- Get User by user name. Two new method were added:
- getUserByUsername Returns the user associated with the specified username.
- getUserByUsernameAndOwner Returns the user associated with the specified username and owner type.
You can download Server Backup Manager by logging into the License Manager at http://download.r1soft.com and selecting the “Downloads” link at the top of the page. For automated Linux download, configure YUM or APT to use the appropriate URLs below (note — the version and build may be different):
To read more about this release, visit our Documentation page.
Head on over to http://forum.r1soft.com/ if you’d like to participate in the community and trade tips and tricks with fellow Server Backup Manager users.
Thank you for being a loyal R1Soft Server Backup Manager customer.
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Randy Bowie | R1Soft
